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That or as some think, influence the judges.
Feel like ive noticed a trend if a fighter wins in the beginning fairly dominantly, its not enough to win the other rounds, even if they should be given to the other fighter, if its close they go to the one who made a good first impression. May be due to the halo effect actually, - I think, judging how things are, right now as a capper, you probably need to actually cap and even bet with that knowledge, even if yo uknow and think you should be the other way. Like we´ve seen so many decisions where media and public were the opposite way, where I also live bet that, but I had a strong feeling the judges would go the other way due to the way they see it from the cage.
Hard to judge as it may be recency bias and lack of data - but I think there is something to it, - but to start betting the other way also feels like a stupid move, when you know you should bet. I.e a recent example was Yoder, i remember betting after round 2 fofr dec even thouhg thinking she´d be down.
Hope it makes sense somehow, basically perhaps one should start handicap what they see even though its not really fair or how it should be is what I mean. I.e legkicks seems to have been undervalued by judges despite again perhaps not really being far.
